Published: December 12th 2023, 5:30:46 pm
I hope to release the movie update before christmas, but my schedule is too unpredictable to make promises.
I did a lot of work and the first phase of movies is now pretty much done. You can pick a screenplay (which includes a genre), a director and three movie stars. Then, the movie goes through a few phases that I now have to code. Coding them is the easy part and should be done semi-quick. Writing all the included events is gonna take a while.
As the movie goes through writing, you can adjust some things about the story which will influence what scenes you'll get when visiting the set for example (adding more sex scenes to the script = more sexy stuff, for example). There'll be a shooting phase, a marketing phase and a short release phase. I wanted to do a casting phase but I'm still brainstorming on how to fully implement it into the game in a fun way. I have some ideas but as usual I want to start adding them and see if they work.
All your choices will also influence the success chances. You can make selfish choices, like adding gratuitous nudity and sex for your own enjoyment but hurting the mainstream appeal. Or you can be a good business(wo)man and make all the commercially successful choices. I have the success chance calculations all working on the back end and luck only makes up 10% of the equation this time.
I feel like this is gonna be pretty much perfectly what I had in mind when it's done. It'll be fun, diverse and with four possible movies at the same time there'll always be something different to do.